Pics of dendros, balano, and duncan!

[heuerfan]

Thanks Viper!

 

[Labman48076]

just got mine yesterday

just got mine yesterday

I had a gift cirtificate I won at a swap for 25 buck of the so 25 off the 60 dollar price this is what I got!

 

[jq1177]

This is my dendro. I got it of ebay about ten months ago for 170.00 it had about eleven heads on it. Now it has about sixteen heads. Picture was taken when I first got it.

 

[john37]

this is probably close to the actual size, almost as big as a baseball.

 

[Stoneyscoral]

 

[racerw]

here is a pictue of one of my dendro colonies

Here are 2 of my Duncan colonies, they both look so different

 

[isjg]

Here's one of my Duncans -

I'll have to get some new pics of it, it's a lot bigger now.

 

[Reefflections]

Hi ISJG
I see you have numerous heads also.Have you ever tried making any frags of this coral.I have a lot of heads,but kinda holding back doing it.I see where folks have cut them,because we see single poyps for sale.But was wondering the best way of doing this,being there isn't any type of branching on them.Just cut between each mouth

 

[Stoneyscoral]

Check out Jendubs blog on Frags.org. She has a nice pictorial of her fragging her Duncan.

 

[Labman48076]

Duncan's the coral for me!

Duncan's the coral for me!

it's going to take me a whle but I am going to trey to collect as many Duncan's as I can for the very simple reason the coral has my last name and it's just cool to have a tank full of coral named after you. take me a while but hopefully someday I will have several if not every varity.

 

[isjg]

Duncans are cheap as chips here, most people have them and frags are common. Basically you just snap off a branch. If you like you can first cut around the membrane that encrusts the branch to stop it tearing. This is the greatest problem with Duncans IME. Once the membrane starts to recede from tears, or encroaching stinging corals or even hair algae (I have one affected by this now) then once the recession hits the head it often kills it. If you can stop the recession it will recover, they're fast growers esp if you feed often.

 

[cpatbay]

Here is mine ... There is also a baby behind the larger one.

 

[JenDub]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8589780#post8589780 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Stoneyscoral
Check out Jendubs blog on Frags.org. She has a nice pictorial of her fragging her Duncan.

Glad to hear you enjoyed it =) Hope it was helpful!

 

[ViPeR_930]

Jen how long did it take you to grow 1 polyp to 18?

 

[JenDub]

6-8 months I think =)

 

[Fliger]

AFAIK there are only two types that I've seen here in the US, the ORA one and the one with the defined green center. I have both and they definitely look different. But the non-ORA (bought from joetbs) is really hardy - I bought 2 heads and one head cracked in shipment and the head died. Within a month or so I saw a head coming out - and now it looks like there was never a break. I think I've had mine for a couple months and I have about 10-12 heads already. The single head of the ORA I got has about 7 or 8 baby heads forming right underneath the tentacles.

I love them, they are a really cool coral. I hope mine tables out like the huge ORA colony.

 

[JenDub]

Which varient did Serdar have?

 

[Fliger]

I never did see the ones Serdar had.

BTW, I also bought some encrusting Balano from www.thecaptivereef.com and its beautiful. I only got 3 small heads and it just sprouted some more. Its SOOO orange. He has a great variety of dendros/balanos.

 

[ReefDoctorMicromussas]

Mike at the Captive reef and Lam have set me up well with the Dendros and the Balano and I even got my very own Rhyzo from Mike ... Now I am looking for a Duncan... ???

 

[JenDub]

Serdar sold a couple of them, no one else got one?